So it looks like I'm going to have to move by Aug 31. I am looking for an apartment but the rents are much higher than where I've been living for 9 years. I need some help, going to need to rent a truck, etc. No pizzas for awhile. 😔
RTs appreciated. 💕
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Recurring monthly donations of any amount would be a massive help for me going forward. Thanks to everyone who's retweeted so far. 🥰
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You should set up GitHub Sponsors. It's focused on recurring donations with tiers although you can (and should) enable one-time donations and custom amounts. It uses USD but it'll happily deposit into a CAD account. I have it depositing into an RBC USD account to save on fees.
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I've looked at GitHub sponsors briefly, but some of the requirements seemed a bit hard to understand. Was it a huge hassle at all for you to setup (speaking as a Canadian)?
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They switched to using Stripe for payments and it deposits the money into your bank account every month without charging any fees.
You need to add a USD and/or CAD savings account to Stripe using Canadian branch information for the bank (not US). It works with RBC without setup.
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GitHub Sponsors only charges people in USD so people end up paying 2.5% or so conversion fees to their credit card company for other currencies.
If you only add a CAD account, you'll pay about the same amount for conversion from USD. You can add a Canadian USD account though.
I got conflicting information from Stripe and RBC support and I was trying to use the RBC USD branch information which is what I use to withdraw USD from PayPal. Stripe needs the Canadian branch information and also note it only wants 7 digit number as the bank account number.
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I entered it with the 06222- prefix and they accepted that but it was causing payments to fail. I switched to trying US branch information (like PayPal) and that wasn't working. Ended up just needing to use Canadian branch (even for USD) and entering number the way they expect.
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